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Jacobs is part of an exciting vanguard--the first wave of cancer patients who are benefiting from a more targeted, molecular-based assault on the disease. Old-fashioned chemotherapy and radiation treatments were blunt weapons that killed healthy cells along with malignant ones; the treatments were far too toxic for most patients to endure. By comparison, the new-generation drugs are precision-guided missiles that zero in on tumors with a minimum of collateral damage. Used in combination with advanced techniques for classifying tumors by their molecular signatures and screening patients by their DNA, the drugs are transforming cancer from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Surviving Cancer | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...movie marvel Judy Holliday.) "Wonderful Town," set in 1935, has many echoes of the team's early days: one scene, "One Hundred Easy Ways (To Lose a Man)," is based on an old Revuers sketch; another set in a nightclub called the Village Vortex, a reference to the Village Vanguard where the Revuers first attracted notice. The score also bursts with the spirit and confidence that must have gone into its speedy creation - as if the trio were saying, Okay, let's write a Village scene-setter, now we'll do a showstopper for Roz, and how about a conga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Bravo! Encores! | 6/12/2004 | See Source »

...Larry Summers is quite interested in having the university together, and FAS and HMS have not worked together well in the past,” he said. “We are in the vanguard of increasing interactions between FAS and the med school...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Programs Reflect Emphasis on Science | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...University-wide science initiatives—including the $300 million Broad Institute for genomics—have been launched over the last year, top administrators have concluded that the University’s two existing science campuses in Cambridge and Longwood will be insufficient to keep Harvard at the vanguard of scientific research...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The DNA of Harvard Falling Behind | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...using his Washington connections and Washington-born fame to solidify the University’s role—and his own image—at the vanguard of higher education...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks and Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Under the Lights: Summers Addresses National Audience | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

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